Last weeks UK Sales Charts if Digital had been included

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PostLast weeks UK Sales Charts if Digital had been included
by Monkey Man » Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:15 am

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Last week’s ‘official’ UK Top 10 chart would have been totally different if digital sales figures were taken into account.

Key sources have shared data with MCV that underlines the disparity between ‘official’ charts and the still unmeasured digital world.

The pressure is now mounting on the industry as a whole - publishers, format holders, data trackers and trade bodies - to start offering this kind of insight on a regular basis.

If the UK charts included digital sales data, last week an entirely new IP would have been No.1 - the Paradox-published Cities: Skylines. The game sold 60,000 copies over 10 days in the UK alone.

The UK trade has been talking up a digital chart for years. But efforts by both Chart-Track and UKIE have stumbled as they failed to secure the support of 100 per cent of publishers.

However, MCV put the chart on this page together over just a few days with input, data and guidance from the likes of Paradox Interactive and Rebellion, plus off-the-record guidance from retail sources wishing to remain anonymous for now.

So MCV will do the counting for you

Until a formal solution is offered for better showing the health of software sales in the UK, MCV is committed to offering a substitute.

Going forward, we hope to start publishing regular charts accurately taking into account digital sales like the one above.

Using a variety of sources, we will try to accurately portray a total measure of games sales in the UK, across both boxed and digital.

We do not guarantee 100 per cent accuracy from day one – but what we do promise is to start bringing some unity on the otherwise separated and fractured data sources in the business.

If you’d like to contribute to this new initiative, contact MCV editor Chris Dring at cdring@nbmedia.com. Data will be kept confidential at all times and used only to aggregate Top 10 or Top 20 rankings.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/cities-s ... ng/0147206

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PostRe: Last weeks UK Sales Charts if Digital had been included
by degoose » Thu Mar 26, 2015 2:35 pm

It would be good if it was done properly and digital content included now. Skylines is currently number one on steam.

EDIT: Actually it was but it's now Pillars of Eternity

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PostRe: Last weeks UK Sales Charts if Digital had been included
by Venom » Thu Mar 26, 2015 2:36 pm

That's really good. MCV should try and do that every week until a standard of data collection has been decided. What you see is that Cities Skylines, Hotline Miami 2 and Ori and the Blind Forest don't get a look in otherwise.


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